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Re:City of Seattle passes tax for local businesses based on ... by GhettoChild on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:47PM (#23754446)
They really do think that big businesses are not able to relocate 10 minutes away to a place without this tax.
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Re:City of Seattle passes tax for local businesses based on ... by chin7an on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:53PM (#23754475)
Or a business can decide to stay in the city, but work out a way to offset the costs, reducing annual raises or reducing bonuses etc. Hopefully this law does bring in some much needed help for the homeless situation, but looking at other Seattle city council projects, I'm not very positive on that happening.
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Re:City of Seattle passes tax for local businesses based on ... by itg on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:10PM (#23754581)
It’s more complex then that. If you reduce bonuses/raises, then talent will start leaving your company if they can get better offers.
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Re:City of Seattle passes tax for local businesses based on ... by GhettoChild on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:40PM (#23754732)
They will just go to Microsoft that is located in Redmond that is not affected by the tax.
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